So it's time for monster high! I got another
request on my last video where i was restyling powerpuff girls. I wasn't familiar with monster
high before i got this request. I did my research, watched episodes, and i'm ready to talk about it.
So, first and foremost i actually really like the character design. Monster high is getting a
live action and that live action is going to be a musical, so we kind of have to take that
into consideration, as well as there is a big difference between the previous two shows and this
adaptation (the previous two shows that i've talked about) and that difference is these characters are
actual monsters. so the design of the characters is not very monster-like, especially with characters
like these... this is cleo de nile, i'm hoping that i'm pronouncing it right! she is a mummy. so she's
kind of still very human looking, i mean all of them are human looking, so i'm kind of suggesting
here that the best course of action with this show would be to not modify humans too much but try
to convey who they are and what they are through makeup, clothes, some accessories. Maybe you can put
some ears on the cat people or whatever, but don't make their face very cat-like. We all know what
i'm talking about here, we've seen cats the movie. To the creators of this musical i would suggest
that they don't try and create actual human size cats or anything like that, or attempt this weird
blend because they will end up in the uncanny valley. that... it's just gonna happen. i have a whole
video where i discuss uncanny valley in media and examples of it. I'm gonna link it somewhere. i kind
of thought about it a lot because i don't want this world, this monster high world, to lose all the
colour and all the character, but at the same time i think that it's one of those things where you have
to be very careful because you don't want it to become comical or creepy in a bad way, because...
of course it's about monsters and it's very halloweeny, but if you go way too far it can become
sloppy and look like you've made a lot of mistakes rather than intentional choices. So let's start
with cleo! This is her in the cartoon series. she's kind of like the popular girl, a cheerleader,
i think their squad is like fear squad instead of cheer squad. She has little gems on her face which
is something i i really hope that they're gonna notice, the creators of the show, and they're not
gonna miss an opportunity to have really bright interesting makeup in the show. Her clothes is very
egyptian inspired, but also mixed a little bit with modern ideas so i kind of thought that bringing
a lot of gold and a lot of extravagant clothing would work for her. You could play around with it
and it would make a lot of sense for her character. these types of dresses is something that i was
considering... she could even wear that to school because she is that extra in terms of her clothing
and everything... and her sister also, nephera both of them are very extravagant and very out there.
i think that it is important for this show not to forget about all the platform shoes and
they're ridiculously platform, and i think that it should be just as with actual characters in
the cartoon, i think that the creators should use the same types of extravagant over-the-top very
high-heeled platform shoes. I also thought that if they would want to tone it down a little bit it
would be interesting to look at dresses like these because it's still very gold, there's a lot of
gold going on. it's not as accurate to what cleo would wear, so this is just one of the options, not
THE option you know? i think that these types of jewelry... this is so pretty! just the colours are so
satisfying to look at, i really love this. i think that they should definitely incorporate this types
of jewelry because it's really rare where when you can use something like that and
it's being accurate to the character you know, let me show you another option that i was thinking
about for the black dresses. i think that using gold embellishments by focusing on very geometric
looks, cuts and layering in the dresses would work really well for her, because it would kind of... it
reminds, me at least, of the way that mommies are created. the way that they're wrapped like there's
a lot of diagonal lines going on in the wrapping so i thought it would be good to think about using
black as something that you can use to build upon with other types of jewelry and such. another thing
that i thought that would work really well is this doesn't this look like mummy wrapping? And it looks
very similar to what she wears for example here as her pants, and right here on one of her legs. if
they want to, they can go full on just one leg to reference this look specifically, but i don't
think it matters that much, they... she could just wear these shoes. by the way, all of the looks
or all the pieces that i'm showing i don't mean that she should be wearing them at the same time,
it's just a bunch of things that i think would definitely work, but they would have to be applied
in in different types of ways depending on scene. Her hair; i think that they should
embrace the fact that all of the girls have very stripey hair and go for it, honestly. but
maybe have a really good hairstylist working with the cast so it doesn't look bad because it
can look really cheap and horrible really quickly if it's not done well. I think that she could
wear a bunch of rings like this, it would work with her, she wears a lot of accessories. this type
of makeup would be extremely faithful to what she has in the cartoon, except for the bedazzled kind of
look that she has going on, but i did find a couple of other looks that have some rhinestones on the
cheek, so this one for example could look great on her, i also thought that it would be interesting
to use a colour like this, that's very duochrome reminds you of the colors that are oftentimes
used in egyptian jewelry. by the way, this video for some reason just finding these pieces took
me... like it always takes me quite a while but this time i was getting motion sickness from just
scrolling so much! in any case... i also decided to do deuce gorgon, which is her boyfriend. i think he's
the only guy that i styled for this, and it just has everything to do with the fact that when i
looked at him i just had an idea and i wanted to talk about it. so first of all, i want to explain
that his character... he's obviously the son of medusa gorgona and he has snakes
instead of hair, right? so he's wearing sunglasses to stop himself from freezing everyone or i mean
turning them to stone. what i thought about was for budgeting reasons (i don't know how good the
budget is going to be for this movie nickelodeon is kind of all over the place with it sometimes
they have really big budgets and sometimes they have really small budgets) and in order to make
the characters look cool but also the same time save a little bit of money on all those after
effects all the post work i think that it would be interesting to have more of a transformation
happening so for example his hair looks normal unless he uses his powers you know so like
unless he's looking at someone without his glasses or whatever and then they can come alive
you only have to animate and create those snakes for only one scene or something like that.
when i saw this i thought of him. doesn't it look like this would be a great look for him?
like even the choker and everything is very in tune with what this character is all about.
i think it would be interesting to style him this way as well as i obviously have a few more
examples of guys with buzz cuts that are either green or sea-foam green or whatever. i think the
thing looks really cool, i think it would make that character really stand out. this kind of look would
work for him it, would immediately remind you of this character but not gonna be super outdated in
the execution. Okay, so after deuce we're gonna do Lagoona blue. so with her a lot of her looks are
quite casual, she's like a very sporty person. she's a swimmer, she's a sea creature and i looked
at the shorts and this this top and everything and i noticed that it's kind of sporty but i thought
about how how can they make this character more of a sea monster without going as far as painting
her this colour, you know, because it's gonna be like painting somebody colour like that would be very
difficult to do for an entire musical, i don't know if they would go for it i wouldn't i would just
go with transformation kind of thing for the sake of just the musical looking better. i might give
her you know one of those skin things in between the finger or something but that's about it. In any
case, i found a few things that i think would suit her, for example this shirt. A very fishy look, same
with this. This is not particularly fish related but it still reminds me of underwater creatures as
well as shoes like these they're they're very much very over the top in terms of how monster high was
created design wise and i think that sticking to it to a certain degree would be very interesting.
i think that recreating each look bit by bit to the point where it's an entire cosplay wouldn't
look as good as making it a little bit more high fashion and then because high fashion pieces can
be a little bit over the top combined with the setting, which i think should be as faithful to the
original monster high high school as it can be. it would work pretty well. i think they should go very
theatrical with it because if they're going with a musical at this point you have to go all the
way, because musicals are one of those things... i i genuinely don't really like musicals but i think
they could be done well if you let the camp in where it needs to be, you know? like don't avoid the
campiness of it all because you already signed up for a goddamn musical, people don't just burst into
song whenever they want to say something so at this point you can just go ahead and do whatever! i
also thought these shoes looked incredible they're just really interesting, would look pretty cool.
i think that something like this... it's pearls it's very elegant, but it looks like seaweed or
something i don't know i thought that it would be interesting to do something like that in her
transformation state, that she has something very intricate in her design... like i don't want it to
look really cheap and gross you know and for the makeup i thought it would be really interesting
if she had this kind of look in this adaptation, um it's quite similar to... they all have very bright
makeup, and i think that this would work for her. i also have this look, which would be good for
like a prom or something like that, if they're going to do something. i really love this work
in terms of just how the fabric is draped it's so interesting, just the way it moves and everything...
I'm really... i'm always impressed by pieces that make fabric look otherworldly. and i think that
these types of dresses are really pretty and would fit her pretty well, because it reminds me of
something like underwater creatures you know? now onto clawdeen! she is a werewolf, she's kind of like
what i would think (in live action) any of those creatures would kind of look like. she's very much
human-like, she has maybe like the teeth that are a little bit... the canines are a little bit sharper
and... is it canines? i don't actually know... anyway so she's very much human-like, but she has those -
-like the makeup, and maybe the ears also kind of add to this whole werewolf nature and i think that
this is as far as they should go in terms of these kind of things. so her outfits... she
always has one of those jackets with fur lining, which i think is fantastic! i really love those.
that's such a... like i love this character design it's really good, i see why people wanted to see
styling of it and stuff like that because it is interesting. obviously i thought of something like
this, but the inside dress... i don't think she would wear something this vinyl texture. to push the idea
a little bit further i kind of also added these; so i think that she would wear something like that
more, there's obviously a few more images like this this one is fantastic! i think that this would be
great on Clawdeen, this one as well, this girl also has like kind of the hair that i imagine Clawdeen
to have, the hair is great, has chic quality to it oh my god this look as well! just a lot of deep
plums, purples, browns, would look really good. i think for this character i also put this dress in
because i think that underneath like one of those fur lined coats or whatever it would look really
cute. by the way all of this characters they wear a lot of purple eyeshadow, i don't know why, but a
lot of them do. i wanted to give it a little bit of variety, so i threw some other colours in just
because i was sick and tired of purple and in this case here we have purple of course because
she is wearing a lot of purple and her character wears a lot of purple in other pieces of clothing,
not just in her makeup, but i also thought that it would be interesting to have this type of graphic
eyeliner going on as well, and some bushy brows. Abby Bominable! this girl is a yeti, so i guess
not a girl, a ghoul, as they call them - ghouls i like this character a lot, and she is one of
those like ice queen kind of ghouls and i'm into that, because it's such an aesthetic you know? i
don't know, i love ice and snow and everything, it's so pretty. i also have this look of hers for you
to see, i obviously had to use this image because this is perfect, come on, right? white... all white
look is genuinely perfect for her. This is not as perfect because this is just some fur at the
top of the gloves, i don't think it's the best look to compare to the first one that i showed you
as well as i think that it would be interesting to experiment with some accessories and go for a very
icy look with it. As well as these types of shoes again, i'm gonna go with crazy platforms for the
entire video, if you don't like them i'm sorry but i think every character in this show wears crazy
platforms and i'm kind of here for it, so i'm going to double down on it! it's a bunch of more very
wintery looks except i don't like the two piece under this jacket because i would say... i i would
want something that's maybe high neck and like a one piece instead of a two piece, but the shoes
are phenomenal! like really what this character is wearing. once again i... the creators should go all out
with the hair, but make sure that it's not looking bad. this would look exactly like abbey's hair and i
think that it would look iconic if it's done right you know? some makeup for her... she's wearing pink
eyeshadow and i put a bunch of examples of like some graphic eyeliner, experimenting with some
pinks, pinks that are light pink or bright pink with a little bit of gems, but i want you to take
a look at the lower lash line and the fact that it's light pink (could be white as well) because
i think that it would be very interesting to experiment with frosted makeup kind of look
on her and instead of giving her black lashes to give her very long white frosted lashes.
i wouldn't go for frosted eyebrows but the lashes would be great, like for example this girl;
like she still has dark eyebrows and everything but her eyelashes are... they're looking as if it's
just a bunch of snow accumulated there you know when it's like negative 40 outside or something.
now we are on to Draculaura! so Draculaura is our resident e-girl, very much an e-girl. i feel like e-girls probably... they probably got inspired by her, because everything about her is the beginning of
the e-girl trend in 2020 when it was very pink and black, a lot of stripey hair, two-tone hair, a lot of
accessories that are safety pins... so i thought that it would be interesting to also kind of not forget
about the fact that the character wasn't exactly inspired by the e-girls because this character
was created in 2010 I think, so i wanted to make sure that Draculaura still has this classic
vampire aesthetics here and there sprinkled in, you know? for example, these types of shoes... not exactly...
the platforms are not really vampire-esque, but they're very much monster high, however the type
of lacing that's on these shoes reminds me of the style, this gothic kind of style, that vampires
(classical vampires) were known for before they got like very modernized. same here, also shoes, once
again, i'm showing this picture basically just for the shoes to be honest. of course the hair ,
and right now we have so many examples of me like maybe it would have been a little bit
more difficult five years ago for me to find more recent pictures of examples of hair
that's being dyed in such a way that it's like with stripes of pink but right now we have so many
examples, so i'm gonna show you all of them i think that they should go for it because it would be
it would be great it would be like an iconic show that has such a strong commitment to bringing
the show to life in a way that makes it look cool but also a little bit Campy instead of making
it look cheap, and that's the thing... the issue is with the budget. i have a little bit of a bad
feeling that maybe the budget is gonna be pretty low for this production, and if it is really low
i'm afraid that it's going to look like one of those disney channel or nickelodeon productions
that are very like on the lower end... i hope that they are going to have enough money to not butcher
the hair, makeup, clothes and stuff like that and the surroundings, and that they have a good writer,
because if they have those things they can pull it off I think. it's kind of like one of one of
those shows that you have to... you HAVE TO commit . i think it would be interesting to experiment with
something like this; this is a vivian westwood and i think that it would be interesting to bring back
those shorter sleeves with a little bit of this flowy fabric. now, here; this also reminds me, because
of the length and because of the way that it is falling the sleeves, they are very much reminiscent
of this vampire-esque aesthetic and i think that it would be interesting to experiment with
something like that with Draculaura. I also think that it is because she has this heart on her cheek,
i think it would be a good idea to bring back the whole marina and the diamond aesthetic with the
heart on the cheek, i think it's a detail that would go a long way, that would make any makeup
look like Draculaura. using a lot of safety pins as accessories, just like the safety pin that
she's wearing right now as earrings using this ones or something similar you know having a lot
of piercings i think that this for example also reminds me of this vampire aesthetic except maybe
a little bit modernized because of the asymmetry and other obviously other silhouette differences,
like the top of the dress being entirely different in terms of time period and inspiration than the
sleeve but i think that it would be interesting to maybe experiment with something like that if they
have a prom or some kind of a celebration like that where they're wearing extravagant dresses.
this is for the makeup, i think they should go very very pink, she's very girly, so she likes
these kind of very bright fuchsia pink colours and i think that they should create this character as
girly as she is in the cartoon, there's no need to make her less girly for the live-action adaptation.
okay so that's with Draculaura, let's move on to Frankie Stein. so Frankie Stein is obviously
frankenstein's monster's daughter, let's see what she looks like in the cartoon... so here she is;
she's a little bit naive, because she was created quite recently, i think she was only she's only
a year old or something like that in the cartoon because she was reanimated, and that's why
she has all of these stitches and everything and she obviously has the famous bolts in her neck and
i think that this is one of those things where it could be done with makeup or whatever but i think
it would be better if they did it with jewelry to make it a little bit more glamorous. also she has
heterochromia and i think they should definitely follow through on this get contacts or whatever
for the actress let me show you a couple more pictures, so this is also another outfit that she
wears... here she is... okay, so i put this choker here but not because i want her to wear this specific
choker as much as i was trying to find something that has vertical bars on a choker because i
think it would be interesting to have a choker it's a little bit tighter of course, not like
low right here but here with those vertical bars specifically more sparse bars that look
like stitching and are less bedazzled it kind of reminds you of the stitches or whatever the
hell she has all over her body you know and i think it would be interesting to wear it not
just as a choker but also wear it on the arms in the scenes where she detaches her limbs and
whatever she can detach it at those points so it would be really interesting to have a bunch of
like accessories kind of but they're not really accessories, they will look like accessories
from afar though because they're going to be more like metal rather than just a different
patch of green color or whatever it is all over her body, on her legs and stuff like that
just a bunch of different bracelets anklets and whatever it is the bolts also it would be great
if she had actual bolts. i think that these two skirts are reminiscent of what she wears... for other
skirts, i really like the belt i have another skirt that i think is really interesting as well
because it's kind of similar to what she wears maybe not in this particular picture but another
one having the same theme of being reattached and assembled from different pieces because
it has different types of plaid going on as well as their carabiners car... i don't know how to
pronounce it, the "carabiners", "carabiners", those things that you use to like attach two things together,
and also there's the skeleton hand which i think is just fantastic! this skirt in general would
just look great on frankie i think using a shirt that's kind of very goody two shoes but using a
skull necklace would be really great for her as well because she does have this kind of preppy
style a little bit with a lot of skulls going on let me show you another photo... she literally like
has skull accessories and there's a skull on her another thing is of course another pair of pants
that kind of reminds me of assembling, reattaching things i think it would suit her a lot... skunk hair!
which is... i didn't know this was called skunk hair, i mean i could have guessed that, it could have been
the name. it would look fantastic on her, i think they should definitely go for it, like this type of
hair, fantastic! i also found this photo which i think looks not bad and then look in the in the
photos next to it there's literally Frankie Stein right here so i guess i was correct in picking
that one also she has the red nails a lot of them do i think that this type of nails just would
look really cute kind of jelly nails with some black hearts on it and for makeup she also she's
also wearing purple eyeshadow i think it would be interesting to do something like this with a lot
of sparkles dreamy kind of looks would suit her quite a bit now we're on to ghoulia yelps which
is a great name, she is a zombie which in this universe they get kind of discriminated against
because of them being kind of slow but she is the smartest girl at school it's just they're small
they're slow in terms of their reaction time i guess physically she's a great character i really
like her i think when it comes to her clothes i really like the fact that she's wearing this
cherry tank top with like a little skull on it and she has this like fishnets, i don't like those
shoes by the way, so i did not pick shoes like that for i'm sorry i just couldn't but i do like the
layering! i found a cherry shirt that's literally exactly the shirt that she's wearing! i mean maybe
not exactly, but you can see that it's very similar this shirt layering it with this kind of mesh
stuff underneath i don't mean wearing it like that of course because i like this choker with
cherries i think that it should kind of double down on the whole cherry thing for ghoulia and i
love this type of hair, so going full on full blue don't even hesitate, go like with a really bright
color but make it look like it's her natural hair colour by styling it well! i also think that they
should go with like big white glasses for her just as in the cartoon she would wear a lot of shirts
like this like this specifically but she would definitely be like layering it up with that cherry
shirt! the last one that i picked out was toralei stripe, meowlady and persephone! that's like a group
of mean girls at their school, Toralei is the head of the group, this girl... her backstory was really
sad! she's like an orphan. there's so much that happened to her before she got to that school
it's sad, but she found two friends this is them they look very similar i think they're like twins
or something like that and for those girls i kind of picked out outfits that would look similar to
their shoes so this is the shoes i think they all should kind of wear something like that because
that's literally what they're wearing look at this right this type of clothing where it looks like
it's been ripped with claws you know it reminds me of torlai and her clothing also having like
ripped up tights would be really interesting patterns on her clothes have this type of torn
either patterns or actual rips it looks like it's rips from claws i also think that they would
wear a lot of mesh stuff but not this like not the outfit itself as much as this mesh gloves and i
put a lot of examples of mesh things like this cardigan also just gloves in general it seems
like something that they would wear they do wear it in the cartoon as well this types of gloves
especially the ones that are fingerless and mesh i think that they would look really interesting on
them for makeup they actually wear different types of colors to compare to the other girls twirl
i wears purple and green i have another look it's kind of similar yeah basically they're the
same kind of application and stuff and for the other girls they are wearing blue eyeshadow so i
decided to pick something like this which is very cut eye very sharp angle of the wings i think
that it would give them more of a cat-like look without having to resort to changing their faces
to literal cats these types of graphic eyeliners also fantastic and i think that just going for
a shimmery smokey eye in those colors would look fantastic for them because it kind of gives it
this bad girl vibes without being too in your face okay so i think that's it for all the characters
okay so this is what i've got for monster high looking for all these images made me dizzy
but i am interested to see what they're gonna do with it i hope they have enough of a
budget given to them to have a fighting chance in adapting something as colorful and monstrous
and halloweeny as monster high because it does have great character design it would be a
disservice to not translate in an interesting innovative way it could be a very iconic musical
if they do it right let's see what they do and let me know if you want me to style anything
else if you have any other requests because i do as you can see i do request a lot if you've
been a fan of the original show i'm really interested to hear what you think about this if
i got the vibe right if this is what you would want the show to look like or if you think that
i kind of created something that's not exactly translating the show very well!
yeah, thank you for watching, bye!
